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Florida does indeed lean on property and sales taxes. You can even build good infrastructure that way.
by ch4s3 4y ago
Florida does indeed lean on property and sales taxes. You can even build good infrastructure that way.
- cool_dude85 4y ago>You can even build good infrastructure that way. Yeah, but Florida doesn't, really.
- ch4s3 4y agoI don't live there, and don't really have a particular ax to grind here but it looks like Miami is building a lot of flood control infrastructure pretty quickly.
- kelnos 4y agoI wouldn't be surprised if they're leveraging federal funds for that, or at least for a big part of it.
- ch4s3 4y agoIt looks like a lot of those projects are split in funding between the state and federal government for initial build and the counties are issuing bonds to fund maintenance.
- yardie 4y agoI live here. Miami is not building a lot of flood control infrastructure. Just a few diesel water pumps in tonier parts of town to keep the king tides at bay. The lifted truck/SUV is almost a requirement in the long term. After watching a row of cards flood out on our main street, Biscayne, you want something that drives high and dry.
- ch4s3 4y agoIt seems like there's a bunch of coastline restoration and mangrove planting happening as well. Has that not started in earnest?
- yardie 4y agoMiami Beach is making a valiant attempt. That city has been working on massive climate change projects for some time. We’ll see if it pays off. Miami is a basket case. The city commission held a vote to remove mangroves from the park because they were blocking the view. LOL. Just massive political incompetence.
- ch4s3 4y agoA rising tide drowns all cooks
- cool_dude85 4y agoThe flood control infrastructure in Miami Beach is to keep the plates spinning a little while longer. Long term, it's underwater.
- ch4s3 4y agoI don't see why it couldn't be protected like Amsterdam which is ~6.5' below sea level. Miami for trade and finance purposes is the Amsterdam of the Caribbean and northern chunk of South America and Central America.
- cool_dude85 4y agoAmsterdam has the famous dykes, but Miami is built on limestone so sea walls do not work.
- ch4s3 4y agoYeah I didn't mean using the exact same approach. They'll probably have to do things like building artificial reefs, planting mangroves, raising buildings/roads, and maybe something like Tokyo's giant cisterns. In the end it may not work but it seems like it's worth trying for a few decades.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoRoads are nice in my experience
- goostavos 4y agoThe roads in Florida are freaking fantastic and pristine almost everywhere. I moved to Seattle ~5 years ago and I still can't get over the fact that the roads are pot holed pieces of crap in a constant state of disrepair. We can't even get white divider lines painted reliably in the downtown core. I don't know where all the tax money goes. However, the downside of those glorious Florida roads is that, well, you need them at all. Everything is sooooooo spread out and flat. I forget until I go back and visit just how far away everything is from everything else. Going to something "just up the road" is a 15-20 minute drive.
- jrs235 4y agoThe roads in Florida are nice because they don't go through the freeze thaw cycle in winter.
- pandaman 4y agoWhy they are not nice in California then?
- ch4s3 4y agoOne imagines there are differences in the abilities of various governments to deliver projects. I’ve read that most of California’s projects go to a handful of contractors with poor records.
- pandaman 4y agoSo could it be the reason roads are nice in Florida is not the lack of winter freeze but the ability of its government to govern?